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services in Nigeria. While significant gains in the reduction of inequality and improvement in access have been made for more … part driven by historical heterogeneous federal government policy towards different groups in Nigeria. …
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Due to increasing population pressure on limited cultivable land in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), farm size has been shrinking, fallow periods have been shortened, and soil fertility has been declining. In accordance with the Boserupian evolutionary theory and the Hayami-Ruttan induced...
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This paper uses panel data at commune, household, and plot levels to study the causes and effects of agricultural land fragmentation in rural Viet Nam. We focus on both inter-farm fragmentation (the division of land into many small farms) and intra-farm fragmentation (the division of each farm...
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This paper analyses the land tenure reform that took place in Mexico in 1992 and its PROCEDE programme (Ejido Rights Certification Programme). It considers the counter-agrarian reform's objectives, the context in which it was proposed, and the different actors involved. It delves into the main...
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This paper studies the relationship between land tenure for smallholder agriculture and deforestation in Viet Nam. We combine high resolution satellite data on deforestation with rich household and commune-level, biannual panel data. We study two margins of tenure security, whether a household...
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case studies the two African countries, Botswana and Nigeria.Using distributed-lag analysis, the paper finds that the … supportive of the 'resource curse' hypothesis for Nigeria, but not for Botswana.I further argue that the superior institutional … quality in Botswana, relative to Nigeria, is likely responsible for the contrasting results. However, Nigeria appears to be …
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Nigeria. It uses primary household level data from Nigeria to analyse the impacts of induced price variability on household … policy. -- food ; fuel ; financial crisis ; poverty ; vulnerability ; sub-Saharan Africa ; Nigeria …
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The food crisis of 2008 in Nigeria was influenced by price changes in the world market and the escalation of the price … of imported fuel into Nigeria which led to sharp increases in the prices of agricultural inputs and transportation cost …
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known as Nigeria Vision 20: 2020, sets the direction for the current industrial policy in Nigeria. The industrialization …
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This paper analyses the role of foreign aid to assist development in two oil-rich countries: Indonesia and Nigeria … 1960s into one of the 'Asian Tigers' in the mid-1990s, and why it did not prevent Nigeria from falling into 'African …
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